bathos
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n.
1.
1. An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
2. An anticlimax.
2.
1. Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos: “a richly textured man who... can be... sentimental to the brink of bathos” (Kenneth L. Woodward).
2. Banality; triteness.
n.
1.
1. An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
2. An anticlimax.
2.
1. Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos: “a richly textured man who... can be... sentimental to the brink of bathos” (Kenneth L. Woodward).
2. Banality; triteness.

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